Overview
Open-source motion planning and manipulation for robotics. MoveIt Studio and MoveIt Pro for industrial arms.
Reality check
Open-source MoveIt (company-claimed)
A major contributor to the open-source MoveIt motion-planning framework in ROS.
MoveIt Pro (company-claimed)
Commercial runtime and developer environment for arm control, mobile manipulation, simulation and deployment; rebranded from MoveIt Studio in 2024.
History (company-claimed)
Grew out of MoveIt and Amazon Picking Challenge work, then pivoted from services to MoveIt Pro.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
MoveIt Pro family
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Partnerships
Every company PickNik Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint132 total
Most recent
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Dave Coleman Founder & CPO
- Dave Grant CEO
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for PickNik Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
PickNik Robotics in third-party press
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names PickNik Robotics.
People (2)
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company PickNik Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint132 total
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for PickNik Robotics.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning PickNik Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik to Accelerate AI-Driven Robotics
Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics, reinforcing its continued investment in driving an open ecosystem for advanced physical AI and robotics. The post Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik…
Chips to Bots: Qualcomm’s Agentic AI Breakout
Qualcomm is expanding beyond smartphones with new 2nm chips, the PickNik Robotics acquisition, and data center interconnect deals, while analysts hold a $204 price target amid…
Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source
Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework. The post Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt…
AI robotics: Moving from the lab to the real-world factory floor
PickNik releases MoveIt Pro 9 to improve AI-driven robotics in variable environments
PickNik Robotics gives MoveIt Pro 9.0 enhanced perception-to-motion, teleop capabilities
2026 Robotics Summit early bird registration ends March 2
PickNik Robotics to work with Motiv Space Systems on NASA ISAM mission
NASA Standardises On Open Source Space ROS For Flight Robotics With Motiv And PickNik Partnership
Motiv Space Systems and PickNik Robotics Collaborate on Software for NASA’s Fly Foundational Robotics (FFR) Mission
NASA prepares orbital test of commercial robotic arm to advance in-space infrastructure
PickNik expands support for Franka Research 3 robot on MoveIt Pro
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/picknik-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/picknik-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/7f230009-242d-46e1-8602-749aaf3ad4e8
- Revision history: /companies/picknik-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place PickNik Robotics against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 8, 2026